Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-18
A FEARFUL WRECK.
Yl1vIN PEOPLE wousDED AND ONE
KILLED on THE B. 60. R.R.
An Upmanaesabls Train Plies the Track
and Dashes Into . Brick House ct
Warrington The Wounded.
fBy telegraph to the Dispatch !

WASHINGTON, ~. u, August H.
The few residents in the neighborhood
OF the Baltimore and Ohio "Y" who
were up and on the street at $50 this
morning witnessed singular and start
ling scene. 1t was no less than that OF
train Of cars leaping from the track
and rushing with the speed of light
ming end tho crash OF thunderbolt
through brick house. In an instant
the train and house were heap OF
ruins sad the track for some distance
Uttered with debris. The train TO
which this accident occurred was No.
4, coming from the West, due here at
G:20. About 6:30 it came laundering
into the city over the Metropolitan
branch, and at . curve nearly mile
away from tho "Y" began whistling
down brakes.
THE BRAKES WOULD NOT WORK.
For some reason the brakes were not
put down. The air-brakes, it was
stated, did not work, and the engineer
began blowing his distress whistle for
tho brakeman to put on the regular
brakes. Either the brakeman did not
heed the signal or it was not given in
time to be of use ; for the train, flying
at frightful rate, came laundering
down towards the sharp curve at the
"Y." On tho south side of the "Y, "
in q little corner made by the intersec-
ton of tracks, was located the railroad
signal.tower, o brick structure three
stories high, where railroad-men are
employed to regulate the signals and
switches.
| CRASHING INTO HOUSE.
at the "Y," when the train turned
| the sharp curve of the "Y" with o
fearful Roadway, the cars behind the
engine flew the track and smashed into
tic signal-tower, and in al instant there
was wreck which, for confusion, has
seldom been equallcd in railroad an
nails. The engine was dragged from
the track and ploughed through dirt
and mud distance of $50 feet and
rolled over. There it lay, giving forth
its steam and hot water in great jets.
The steam and water were blown
through house and some of the in
mates were badly scalded. Near the
engine lay Hamilton Bresius. the en-
| eineer, crushed and dying, and his fire.
man with several bones broken but
behind the engine was scene OF
PANIC AND CONFUSION.
Ono car was crushed and nearly
buried under tho track and timbers OF
the demolished building. Two Aeep
ing.cosches and one passenger coach
renamed Oh the track. The mai. car
the express car, and baggage-car were
rolled over and their sides were crush
| cd. The roof OF one car protruded
from the ruins OF the building. The
disaster, of course, at once created III
tense excitement. A fire alarm Wa:
sounded which brought the fire depart
ment and police to the scene. Ambu
lances were hurnedly sent for and {
corps of physicians came-sumnoneo
from every direction. Many injured
persons were removed and taken tc
neighboring houses or drugstores or tC
hospitals. In this way eighteen OF
twenty people were got cut OF the
wreck, some OF them only slightly in
jured, others with bones broken an(
bodie, badly bruised and cut.
MARVELLOUS ESCAPE.
In the signal-tower on the uppe
floor or observatory William Baxter
the railroad signal man, was ut work
On the ground floor Joseph Haley, I
young man employed by tn
railroad company, was engaged IL
cleaning lamps. Baxter, it ap
pears, realized the impending dan
ger in time. He gave shou
to Haley and leaped from the tower t.
the ground. He broke his arm in tn
fall and was badly shaken up, bu
seems to have escaped more serious III
jury. Haley below, however, was bu
RED in the ruins of the house. Whel
he was disnterred it WAS found tina
the timbers had fallen SO as to prOtec
him from the tons Of brick and morta
above kim. He was badly frishtene
and bruised and blinded by lime an
plaster.
LIST OF INJURED.
The following is full list Of the il
jured
Charles Koch, Cincinnati, badly in
iured in back.
Mrs. Charles Koch, Cincinnati
slightly shocked.
Charles Morrison, Cincinnati, slight
injured in back.
Frank Domaine, st. Louis, shoulde
dislOcated.
j. II. Smith, Cincinnati, tiremar
both legs broken.
Wilhelm Buck, Cincinnati, hea
badly cut. :,
Mrs. Mary Buck, Cincinnati, badl
shocked.
Ed. Sechemcyer, Cincinnati, slight
injured. =.
Joe Henly, Washington, seriously il
+ jured.
William Baxter, telegraph-operato,
Washington, painfully injured abor
the head.
The Chicago and Cincinnati sleeper
cid not leave the track.
. vIRGINIAN WOUNDED.
William Bradford, who lives ne1
Iynchburg, Va, was bruised ABOUT tn
| | head.
THE ENGINEER
, Eroseus. who was terribly crushed IN
mutilsted, WAS carried into Dent
t house, and lay groaning on mattre'
D on the floor until nearly half-past
$ o'clock, when he died. His firema
| was taken to the Providence Hospita
Theodore Stella, clerk in Mueden
g grocery store, opposite the I, hear
0 the train coming. His attention W.
1 attracted to it by the whistle and bel
0 He ran to the front street just in tin
5 TO sec the train entering the Y. III
engineer was on top OF the engine a
tempting to raise the steam-box, al
risked his own life in endeavoring
save the lives of the passengers. Whe
r the crash came the engineer went III
4 derneath and caught most OF the e
: Gaping steam. The fourth or fifth Ct
on the train struck the tower, and as
/ did Baxter, the operator, Jumped fro
the third-story window.
i A railroad-man says: "The eng
a neer. Mr.. Broseus, stuck to his pc:
and when found the steam was blown
from the lubricstor into his face. /
q was taken to q house near by and dix